Quadro K2200M vs FirePro D500

Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 with Quadro K2200M, including specs and performance data.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.83
+20.5%

D500 outperforms K2200M by a significant 20% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking422479
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.749.58
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameTahitiGM107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)19 July 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536640
Core clock speed725 MHz667 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6026.68
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS0.8538 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs9640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-A (3.0)
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s80 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs
Display Portno data1.2

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Prono data+
Mosaicno data+
nView Display Managementno data+
Optimusno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131+
CUDA-5.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.83 8.99
Recency 18 January 2014 19 July 2014
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 65 Watt

FirePro D500 has a 20.5% higher aggregate performance score, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

K2200M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, and 321.5% lower power consumption.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro K2200M in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation card while Quadro K2200M is a mobile workstation one.


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